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Spiny dogfish, grad school, and life

It’s been a long time coming, but the work I’ve been doing on spiny dogfish feeding ration has finally seen publication. For those with access, the paper (published in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management) is now available online (and if you don’t have…

Some of you may recall a couple years ago (the summer of 2012) I had a series of posts under the category “Summer of the Shark” recounting the events of my field work trying to survey Pamlico Sound for sharks. The purpose of that project…

Field work season is heating up, figuratively and literally. Before I start another series of posts on updates from the water, here’s a quick recap with accompanying photos of a little project I’ve been involved with for the past couple months (and/or year). Readers who’ve…

Earlier this week some new rules were proposed for spiny dogfish management on the east coast. The changes affect three key parts of the fishery management plan for spiny dogfish: quota set aside for research, essential fish habitat, and the allocation of the quota. While…

North Carolina’s weather has never been what you’d call predictable, especially off of Cape Hatteras (all those shipwrecks have to come from somewhere). That said, what I saw yesterday while tagging sharks off of Hatteras takes the cake. During what had been an uncharacteristically nice…

Last week the European Union considered a petition to ban on all products made from spiny dogfish. The petition, put forward by the representative from Germany, would have banned trade of all spiny dogfish products, and barring that called for changing the names of some…

I’ve been meaning to get back into writing about research done by other people (especially if it concerns the mighty spiny dogfish) for some time. Fortunately, a pretty interesting paper has just come out by researchers at Stony Brook and the National Marine Fisheries Service…

A couple quick updates about things that have really slowed down my posting, but have definitely been worth it. First off, SciREN was a great time. It was awesome meeting all the teachers interested in bringing marine and coastal science into their classrooms, and also…

Earlier this month, I quietly added a new page called Teaching Resources to the blog. At the time it was just a placeholder, but now it represents my attempt to use this space for things other than recaps of papers, field work and conferences. As…

Last week (January 22nd-26th) a couple of my labmates and I headed down to Charleston, South Carolina for the spring meeting of the American Fisheries Society’s Southern Division (referred to from here on in as SDAFS). This meeting gets researchers from the Southeast and Gulf…